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Updated: May 19, 2025
"Well, I guess we'll go and look at 'Lua, anyway," he says. "A man don't put 'Lua' on a map without he's got some idea."
At times in her narrative her eyes shone with the eager, earnest sincerity of her words; at others they grew big and troubled as she spoke of the problems that were harassing her world and mine the inevitable self-struggles of humanity, whatever its environment, itself its own worst enemy. "I am daughter of Lua," Miela began slowly, "of the Great City in the Country of Light.
"As surely as Lua gives light by day," she replied; "and when they find us, they will tear us to pieces, for only the Wieroos may murder only they may practice tas-ad." "But they will not kill you," said Bradley. "You did not slay him." "It will make no difference," she insisted. "If they find us together they will slay us both." "Then they won't find us together," announced Bradley decisively.
The wing joints were severed just above the waist line. The feathers on the remaining upper portions were clipped, but through disuse these feathers gradually dropped out entirely. The flesh and muscle underneath was repulsive in appearance for which reason it was always kept covered. Lua showed me her wings once mere shrunken stumps of what had once been her most glorious possession.
You say that I make a mere convenience of Adam: I who spin and keep the house, and bear and rear children, and am a woman and not a pet animal to please men and prey on them! What are you, you poor slave of a painted face and a bundle of skunk's fur? You were a man-child when I bore you. Lua was a woman-child when I bore her. What have you made of yourselves? There is hero and superman.
We went away privately, only Lua and Fuero accompanying us out of the city. Lua parted with her two daughters quietly. Her emotions at seeing them go she concealed under that sweet, gentle reserve which was characteristic of her always. "Promise me you will be careful of her, Alan," she said softly as she kissed me at parting.
The girl flew away to get her friends and the platform, which had been left in the garden of Miela's home. I planned to start openly from the castle roof; there was now no need of maintaining secrecy. The disappearance of Lua was alarming. Equally so was the possible danger into which Mercer might have blundered. In Lua's case there did not seem much I could do personally at that moment.
"There don't seem to be any island there, but here's a name, 'Lua, only you can't tell what it belongs to." No more you could. The name appeared to be dropped down there so that section of the Pacific wouldn't look so lonely. I brought out the ship's chart, but it didn't give any name, only two or three islands sorted around where Craney's chart said "Lua."
The word is derived from two others: Lua, meaning sun, and ata, meaning variously eggs, life, young, and reproduction. She told me that they worshiped Luata in several forms, as fire, the sun, eggs and other material objects which suggested heat and reproduction.
However pleased the newcomer was to see me, I had no difficulty in assuring him with equal truth that my feelings matched his. The first surprise of the meeting over, we took him to the living room, where Lua greeted him with dignified courtesy, and we all gathered around to hear his story.
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